Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-07-01
BRIEFS.


son Wednesday
The COlored Masonic Grand Lodge Of
~, i"' virginia met in Martinsourg last
week ,,
l"' -. last Wednesday on their way
40, .msll boy spends large proper
aon of hi, time in the r"" anu the river
Dawn the caterpillar nests while they
D small, or they will be dreadful
AiI ..snce TO Yourself and to your neigh
JOrs.
,,,-.mep's meeting in the hall tonight
sa,,Ioek As there will be business
1Simnortance all are requested to at
tend.
~, Episcopal Sunday School of Mar
,in.burg will picnic at Island Park June
sa,b, and the Catholic at the same place
July %.
~, a,v i the lst of July-a good time
,onare up accounts and very good
';.,s 70 subscribe for the Shepherdstown
REGISTER.
The scholars of Miss Agnes Gibson's
,,bool had commencement last Mon
3,r evening. The exercises were quite
interesting.
The forces of Messrs. Savery & Co.
,,s .fu working away at lively rate
- .be site of the old rifle factory at
Harper's Ferry.
,pulnber of deaths from lightning
have recently been reported. Do not
,ssk shelter under tree during storm
1t is dangerous.
Harvest times these days are not very
lively. Very few farmers hire extra
hands. for the self-binders do all the
work themselves.
The Twenty-frst Annual Convention
If the Baltimore Conference Sunday
school Society will be held in Winches-
ter, Va, July IS.
The summer visitors are beginning to
come here from the cities. They all
agree that Shepherdstown and its sur
roundings are hard to beat.
Green apples are large enough to
make the boys wish they had cast iron
.tomachs. Sill, small boys stomach
i almost equal to cast-iron.
Soup to make you warm, ice cream 10
make YOU cool, cake TO make you feel
lust so so, and pretty girls to make your
heart hurter, to night at the lawn festi-
val.
The caterpillarS, which caused so
much damage to the trees last summer,
are Just as bad this year. Some trees
have been stripped of every leaf by
them.
Mr. John Hawkins, formerly of this
town. ia in Orlando, Florida, where ne
i. engaged in newspaper work on the
Sentinel, very prosperous looking
paper.
Mr.. W. II. Allen, OF this county, has
acuriosity in the way of a four-legged
and fOur-wlnged chicken, over week
old aud as hearty as any in the tiock.-
SPIRIT,
Mr.. 4. W. Martin. one of the most
prominent millers Of Washington coun-
tg. Nd. has made an assignment. His
indebtedness is about $40, 900; assets are
GrkuOGn.
Rev. David Laughlin, of Baltimore,
has been unanimously elected pastor of
the Hagerstown Presbyterian church.
The salary is 81, 400 a year and the use
Of a parsonage.
There will be dress parade OF the
Shepherd Fire Department on Saturday
evening AZ J o'clock. Every member
VITO intends IN go TO Martinsburg is re-
que,tel to he present.
Lemons aud sugar are cheap, aud as
lemonade j. very healthy you should
drink plenty of it AZ a beverage. Butter
milk i, also good AID should be obtained
whenever practicable.
We call attention to the advertisement
on tie second page of the Model One
Price Clothing House, of Martinsburg,
W. Va. Mr.. Otto Hairy. manager.
Read the advertisement.
Mr.. Blackburn Hughes and Mr.. U. y.
White, Of Martinsburg, have entered
into a co-partncrship Tor the purpose OF
praelicing law. Mr.. White was a for
mer resident of Moorefeld.
4 photographer from Hsgerstown on
Monday took several views of the rail-
road bridge at Shepherdstown. He also
photographed the bridge workmen, and,
strange to say, the camera didn't bust.
Rev. DR.. John d. Blackwell, OF the
Virginia NJ. f. Conference (Sou:h) and
pastor Oi the church at Portsmouth,
Va died Oh Sunday last. He was 63
years Of aye, and leaves large family.
The IIIger3towu people are kicking
vigorously at the present schedule on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. They
are making strong effort TO have a
passenger train put on that will leave
Hagersrown abOut6 O'Clock in the even
my.
The ladies' of the NJ. +. Church South,
q MiddleWny. will have festival and
concert on the 7lh, 9Th and 9th of July.
frof snyder will conduct the musical
entertainment aud will be ably assisted.
Proceeds for church purposes. Pubic
invited.
Miss Mary Holmes Mcclure, daughter